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                  <p class="p_Heading1"><span class="f_Heading1">Import RTF Template</span></p>



  
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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect provides a number of RTF document templates, and enables you to create others. However, you might already have corporate formats and templates in use in your organization, so Enterprise Architect also enables you to import existing templates into the RTF Generator.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To import an external template, follow the steps below:</span></p>
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<li value=1><span class="f_NumberedList">Save the external template as an RTF document.</span></li>
<li value=2><span class="f_NumberedList">In Enterprise Architect, <a href="rtftemplatesdialog.htm#Create">create a new blank template</a>. Name the template but do not specify an existing template to copy from.</span></li>
<li value=3><span class="f_NumberedList">When the template is listed on the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Templates</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> tab of the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Generate RTF Documentation</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog, click on the name and click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Edit</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button. The RTF </span><span class="f_UIControl">Document Template Editor</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog displays.</span></li>
<li value=4><span class="f_NumberedList">Select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">File | Import</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> menu option. The Microsoft Word file </span><span class="f_UIControl">Open</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog displays.</span></li>
<li value=5><span class="f_NumberedList">Locate your template RTF file, and click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Open</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button. The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Open</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog closes, returning you to the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Document Template Editor</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog. This now contains your imported template.</span></li>
<li value=6><span class="f_NumberedList">Select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">File | Save</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> menu option. If necessary, make any <a href="rtftemplateeditorcommands.htm">changes</a> to the template and select </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">File | Save</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> again before selecting </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">File | Close</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> to exit the dialog.</span></li>
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<td width="952" bgcolor="#f7f7ff" style="width:952px; background-color:#f7f7ff;"><p class="p_TiporNoteText"><span class="f_TiporNoteText">Standard graphical images (such as a logo in the header, main text or footer) are imported. However, any Word-based meta-file graphics are not imported.</span></p>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">You can select the new template to use in generating an RTF document, either on the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="createarichtextdocument.htm">Generate RTF Documentation</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog or in a <a href="create_master_document.htm">Master Document</a> or <a href="createadocumentobject.htm">Model Document</a> element.</span></p>




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